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Opera [Latin] (trans. Marsilius Ficinus).

 

Analysis of Content

[*1v] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[D]iuina prouidentia fortiter attingens omnia suauiterque disponens . . .’ Explicit: amor ualde commendat See P. O. Kristeller, ‘The First Printed Edition of Plato's Works and the Date of its Publication (1484)', in Science and History: Studies in Honor of E. Rosen (Wrocław, 1978), 25-39.

[*2r] [Ficinus, Marsilius]: ‘Platonis vita.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato Atheniensis Aristonis et Perictiones siue Potone filius . . .’ Explicit: celeste supernum

[*7r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Tabula librorum.’

[*7r] [Ficinus, Marsilius: Preface addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Ne forte putes, amice lector, tantum opus editum temere . . .’ Explicit: virorum clarissimorum Ficinus notes that he consulted Demetrius Chalcondylas, Georgius Antonius Vespuccius, Johannes Antonius Boninsegnius, Angelus Politianus, Christophorus Landinus, and Bartholomaeus Scala; see James Hankins, ‘Remarks on Ficino's Translation of Plato', in Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone. Studi e documenti, ed. Gian Carlo Garfagnini, Istituto Nationale di Studi sul rinascimento, Studi e Testi, 15, 2 vols (Florence, 1986), I 287-97, at 288.

a2r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum in Hipparchum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ropositum Platonis in Hipparcho est docere nos omnes . . .’ Explicit: esse vituperandum This and the other ‘argumenta' are discussed in Michael J. B. Allen, ‘Two Commentaries on the Phaedrus: Ficino's Indebtedness to Hermias', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 43 (1980), repr. in Michael J. B. Allen, Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and its Sources (Aldershot, 1995), 110-29, at 113.

a2r Plato [pseudo-]: Hipparchus. [Translated by Marsilius Ficinus.] Incipit: ‘Socrates. [Q]uid nam lucri cupiditas est, et qui sunt lucri cupidi? Hipparchus. Mihi . . .’ Explicit: lucri cupidus sit This and all the works of Plato in this edition were translated by Ficinus: see Allen, ‘Two Commentaries', esp. at 112-13. On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. N. G. L. Hammond & H. H. Scullard, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1970), 842.

a3v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in librum Platonis De philosophia.’ Incipit: ‘[S]umma huius dialogi est quid sit et quale officium philosophi . . .’ Explicit: a principio recensere

a4r Plato [pseudo-]: De philosophia. [Also known as Amatores.] Incipit: ‘[D]ionysii grammatici ludum ingressus iuuenes quosdam vidi . . .’ Explicit: dicta laudarunt On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

a5v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in librum De sapientia qui Theages inscribitur.’ Incipit: ‘[D]istinguitur in hoc dialogo sapientia et ultimum distinctionis . . .’ Explicit: petitione dialogus

a6r Plato [pseudo-]: Theages de sapientia. Incipit: ‘[I]ndigebam, o Socrates, quedam priuatim tecum communicare . . .’ Explicit: agere sic agamus On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

a8v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Menonem de uirtute.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uatuor esse argumentationum genera quibus Plato utitur . . .’ Explicit: potius est offitium

a9r Plato: Meno. ‘Menon seu De virtute.’ Incipit: ‘Menon. [P]otes ne mihi ostendere, Socrates, utrum uirtus . . .’ Explicit: quoque iuuabis; not same text as in ed. V. Kordeuter and C. Labowsky, Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Latinus, 1 (London, 1940)

b6r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Alcibiadem primum de natura hominis.’ Incipit: ‘[C]andidissimus Platonis nostri liber qui Alcibiades primus inscribitur . . .’ Explicit: scribere iam institui

b6v Plato [pseudo-]: Alcibiades I. ‘Alcibiades primus de natura hominis.’ Incipit: ‘[O] fili Clinie admirari te arbitror . . .’ Explicit: simul ac te vincat On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

c6r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Alcibiadem secundum de uoto.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam secundus Alcibiades liber profecto sanctissimus de uoto . . .’ Explicit: in Apocalipsi precepit

c6v Plato [pseudo-]: Alcibiades II. ‘Alcibiades secundus de uoto.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [D]eum ne, o Alcibiades, precaturus accedis . . .’ Explicit: amicis tuis excellere On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

d1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Minonem . . . de lege.’ Incipit: ‘[M]inos de lege requirit ut . . .’ Explicit: postulantibus denegauit

d2r Plato [pseudo-]: Minos. ‘Minos de lege.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [Q]uid nam lex apud nos est? Minos. De qua lege interrogas? . . .’ Explicit: cognoscere videamur On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

d4r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Euthyphroneum de sanctitate.’ Incipit: ‘[E]uthyphron totus in confutatione uersatur quo factum est . . .’ Explicit: suam idee participem

d4r Plato: Euthyphro. ‘Euthyphron . . . de sanctitate.’ Incipit: ‘Euthyphro. [Q]uid noui, o Socrates, accidit . . .’ Explicit: sim victurus

e2r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . de uno rerum omnium principio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um Plato per omnes eius dialogos totius sapientie . . .’ Explicit: dialogum ueniamus

e2v Plato: Parmenides. ‘Parmenides de uno rerum omnium principio.’ Incipit: ‘Cephalus. [C]um domo e Clazomenis Athenas profecti . . .’

g1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Philebum . . . de hominis bono.’ Incipit: ‘[H]uius libri propositum est de summo anime bono differere . . .’ Explicit: dialogum ueniamus

g1v Plato: Philebus. ‘Philebus . . . de hominis bono.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [V]ide, o Protarche, quem nunc a Philebo sermonem . . .’ Explicit: tibi reducam

h7r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Hippiam . . . de pulchro' [addressed to] Petrus de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[D]e pulcrhro(!) in Phedro symposio et Hippia disputatur . . .’ Explicit: accedas animaduerteres

h8r Plato (?): Hippias Maior. ‘Platonis Hippias maior de pulchro.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [O] sapiens et pulcher Hippias . . .’ Explicit: mihi iam videar On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

i4v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Lysidem de amicitia.’ Incipit: ‘[U]bi Socrates cum sophistis eorumque sectatoribus disputat . . .’ Explicit: Lysidem ueniamus

i6r Plato: Lysis. ‘Lysis de amicitia.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um ex academia liceum uersus per ipsa suburbia . . .’ Explicit: inuicem potuerimus

k2v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Epitoma . . . in Theetetum . . . de scientia' [addressed to] Petrus de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[D]ialogus de scientia, Petre Medices, insurgit altius . . .’ Explicit: diuinitate coniungens

k6v Plato: Theaetetus. ‘Theetetus de scientia.’ Incipit: ‘Euclides. [N]uper, o Terpsion, an pridem rure uenisti? . . .’ Explicit: huc redibmus

m7r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Ionem de furore poetico' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici . Incipit: ‘[P]lato noster, optime Laurenti, furorem in Phedro mentis . . .’ Explicit: lyram et carmina

m8r Plato: Ion. ‘Ion . . . de furore poetico.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [I]onem saluere iubeo unde ad nos accessisti? . . .’ Explicit: laudatorem esse

n3r Proculus: ‘Prefatio Platonis Sophistam.’ [Translated by Marsilius Ficinus.] Michael J. B. Allen, Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's ‘Sophist’ (Berkeley, Calif., 1989), 217. Ficinus is identified as the translator in the printed title.

n3v Plato: Sophista. ‘Sophista de eo quod est.’ Incipit: ‘Theodorus. [V]enimus, o Socrates, oportune quemadmodum heri inter nos . . .’ Explicit: prorsum dicendum

o7v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Apologus in librum Platonis de regno' [addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[I]upiter optimus maximus cum optaret tale in terris quandoque . . .’ Explicit: felicissime tribuit

o7v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Platonis librum de regno.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um deus atque natura hominem agendo producant eum certe . . .’ Explicit: spectaculis profruuntur

o8r Plato: Civilis. ‘Ciuilis Platonis de regno.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [I]ngentem tibi, o Theodore, gratiam debeo . . .’ Explicit: egregie definisti OCD: not identified; is it what OCD calls Statesman?? Alter authorship, notes accordingly

q6r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Protagoram.’ Incipit: ‘[E]xtat apud Grecos uerissimum de Platone dictum . . .’ Explicit: uiribus imitemur

q8r Plato: Protagoras. ‘Protagoras uel Sophiste.’ Incipit: ‘Familiaris. [U]nde nam, o Socrates? An videlicet a uenatione illa . . .’ Explicit: auditis abiuimus

s4v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Euthydemum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato insignis charitate uir in Euthydemo quemadmodum . . .’ Explicit: adeo preciosam

s6r Plato: Euthydemus. ‘Euthydemus siue litigiosus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uis nam ille erat, o Socrates, qui cum heri in Lycio . . .’ Explicit: filios cohortare

t6v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Hippiam minorem.’ Incipit: ‘[M]irifica Socratis Platonisque nostri bonitas . . .’ Explicit: non usurpanda

t7r Plato: Hippias minor. ‘Hippias minor Platonis de mendacio.’ Incipit: ‘Eudicus. [T]u vero quid nam taces, Socrates? Cum tam multa Hippias . . .’ Explicit: errare censemus

u2v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Charmidem de temperantia.’ Incipit: ‘[S]tudium Socratis in hoc dialogo est omnes quidem ad temperantiam . . .’ Explicit: licet attingere

u4r Plato: Charmides. ‘Charmides Platonis de temperantia.’ Incipit: ‘Socrates. [H]eri cum ad uesperam Potidea ab exercitu . . .’ Explicit: equidem aduersabor

x1v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Lachetem de fortitudine.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato sepenumero magistratus optimos legibus . . .’ Explicit: sydera donat

x2v Plato: Laches. ‘Laches Platonis de fortitudine.’ Incipit: ‘Lysimachus. [V]irum spectastis armis dimicantem . . .’ Explicit: ad te ueniam

x7v Plato (?): Clitopho. Incipit: ‘Socrates. [N]uper mihi retulit quidam Clitophontem . . .’ Explicit: beatus efficiatur There is the following note in the printed title: ‘Hic liber forte non est Platonis'. On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

y1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Cratylum de recta nominum ratione.’ Incipit: ‘[S]apientia Platonica semper quidem suspicit excelsa . . .’ Explicit: antequam iudicent

y4r Plato: Cratylus. ‘Cratylus Platonis de recta nominum ratione.’ Incipit: ‘Hermogenes. [V]is ne sermonem nostrum cum hoc Socrate conferamus? . . .’ Explicit: de his cogita

z8v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Gorgiam.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um duo quedam in animo potissima sint . . .’ Explicit: conferant sempiternam

[et3r] Plato: Gorgias. ‘Gorgias Platonis de rhetorica.’ Incipit: ‘Callicles. [S]ic ad bellum et pugnam ferunt, o Socrates . . .’ Explicit: Callicles precii

2a1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Commentarium . . . in Conuiuium Platonis de amore.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato philosophorum pater in nos unum et octuaginta . . .’ Explicit: perpetuo perfruamur

2d3r Plato: Symposium. ‘Conuiuium de amore' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[V]ideor mihi in his que petitis satis premeditatus esse . . .’ Explicit: domi requieuisse

2f5v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Phedrum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato noster poetice muse quam a tenera etate . . .’ Explicit: munere comparari

2f6v Plato: Phaedrus. ‘Phedrus de pulchro' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[O] amice Phedre, quo nam et unde? Phedrus. Alysia . . .’ Explicit: abeamus

2h3v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Apologiam.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ntiqui gentium theologi in tris diuisi sunt sectas . . .’ Explicit: patrie redditurum

2h5v Plato: Apologia. ‘Apologia Socratis.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]ua uos ratione, o viri Athenienses, affecerit accusatores mei . . .’ Explicit: est incertum

2i4r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Critonem.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uemadmodum apologie ita Critonis quoque tam ordinata tam plana . . .’ Explicit: infusa perducit

2i4r Plato: Crito. ‘Crito uel de eo quod agendum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]ur nam hac hora uenisti, o Crito? An non ualde . . .’ Explicit: ipse ducit

2i7v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Phedonem.’ Incipit: ‘[N]oster de religione liber rem satis per se notam probat . . .’ Explicit: patriam repetat

2l2r Plato: Phaedo. ‘Phedon de anima.’ Incipit: ‘Echecrates. [I]psene, o Phedon, affuisti qua die Socrates . . .’ Explicit: atque iustissimi; not same text as ed. L. Minio Paluello, Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Latinus, 2 (London, 1950)

2n2r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Menexenum' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[C]onsilium Platonis in Menexeno est cohortari omnes . . .’ Explicit: animo perferende

2n3r Plato: Menexenus. ‘Menexenus Platonis uel funebris oratio.’ Incipit: ‘[E] foro uenis, Menexene? An vnde? Menexenus. E foro, o Socrates . . .’ Explicit: ut postulas

2n6v Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in librum primum de re publica' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanto oculus prestat manibus caput pedibus ratio sensibus . . .’ Explicit: facultati consuleret The ‘argumentum' for book 8 is printed in Michael J. B. Allen, Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's ‘Republic’ (Berkeley, Calif., 1994), 155-7.

2n7r Plato: Respublica. Incipit: ‘Socrates. [A]scenderam heri in Pireum vna cum Glaucone, Aristonis filio ..’ Explicit: feliciter habeamus An ‘argumentum' by Ficinus appears before each book.

[2et1r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Compendium . . . in Timeum.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uemadmodum in Parmenide cuncta diuinorum genera pro uiribus . . .’ Explicit: omnes afficitur

[2et1r] Plato: Timaeus. Incipit: ‘[U]nus duo tres quartus autem, o amice Timee, ubi nam est? Ut qui heri . . .’ Explicit: atque vnigenitum; not same text as ed. J. H. Waszink, Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Latinus, 4 (London, 1962)

[rum2r] Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Critiam de attico et athlantico bello.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lato noster officiosissimus patrie sue filius laudauit . . .’ Explicit: atque reuoluuntur

[rum3v] Plato: Critias. ‘Critias Platonis de attico et athlantico bello' [addressed to] Petrus de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam grata longum post iter defesso requies, o Socrates . . .’ Explicit: sic est exorsus

aa1r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in librum primum de legibus' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[S]eculum apud priscos pene idem, magnanime Laurenti, tria . . .’ Explicit: debet intendere

aa3r Plato: De legibus. Incipit: ‘Hospes. []eum ne an aliquem hominum, o hospites, condendarum legum . . .’ Explicit: feram equidem An ‘argumentum' by Ficinus appears before each book.

qq3r Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Argumentum . . . in Epinomidem id est legibus additum uel philosophum' [addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[T]hesaurum diuini Platonis, magnanime Laurenti, latere in hoc Epinomide . . .’ Explicit: commodius pertractantur

qq5v Plato (?): Epinomis. ‘Liber Platonis qui Philosophus inscribitur uel Epinomis, id est legibus additus.’ Incipit: ‘[]am ut communiter statueramus huc tandem omnes tres, o hospes . . .’ Explicit: rectissime adhortari On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

rr2r Ficinus, Marsilius: [`Argumenta' for each of the ‘Epistolae.'] ‘Argumentum . . . in epistolam primam que est Dionis.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ion Syracusanus vir profecto magnus Platonis non auditor solum . . .’ Explicit: beateque viuendum

rr6v Plato (?): Epistolae [addressed to] Dionysius [3]; Dion of Syracuse [2]; Hermia, Erastus and Coriscus; Dion and friends [2]; Archita Tarentinus [2]; Aristodorus; Laodamantus. Incipit: ‘[E]go dum apud uos diuturna opera ita imperium uestrum . . .’ Explicit: opus esse videtur On the authorship see Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edn, 842.

ss10v [Colophon.]

[per1r] [List of errors and corrections.] ‘Emendationes errorum librarii iuxta numerum cartarum atque columnarum.’ Incipit: ‘Et primo in Hyparcum. Carta secunda columna prima scribitur . . .’

[†6r] Naldius, Naldus: [Verse in praise of the work.] Incipit: ‘Cum deus ethereis hunc mittere uellet ab oris | Qui supero nobis a Ioue dona daret'; 7 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus, for Francesco Berlinghieri and Philippus Valor, [1484-5]. Folio.

Remarks: In two parts, printed: (I) [May 1484]; (II) [before Apr. 1485]; cf. BMC. Kristeller dates the publication of the whole to [1484]: see the references in Paul Oskar Kristeller, ‘Ficino and his Work after Five Hundred Years', in Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone, ed. Garfagnini, I 15-196, at 128. The publication was financed by Francesco di Niccolò Berlinghieri and Philippus Valor: see Kristeller, ‘The First Printed Edition', 30-1 and Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Platone: mostra di manoscritti stampe e documenti 17 maggio – 16 giugno 1984, ed. S. Gentile and others (Florence, 1984), 117-19, no. 91.

Collation

Collation: [*8] a10 b c8 d–f6 g8 h10 i–z [et] [con]8 [rum]6 2a–c8 d4 e–i8 l–y8 ç10 et846 2[et]10 [con]8 [rum]6 aa bb8 cc–hh6 ii4 ll6 mm–rr8 ss10 [per]8 [†6].

Remarks: Leaf a2 is signed ai, etc.; leaf i6 is signed iiii, [2 et1] [rum rumi]; leaves2 e1-2 are signed diii–iiii,2 e3-4 are signed ei–ii.

References

ISTC: ip00771000

Hain: HC *13062 = H 13068? = H 7077;

Goff: Goff P‑771;

BMC: BMC VI 666;

Proctor: Pr 6405;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑568; CIBN P‑446; James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 17/1-2, 2 vols (Leiden, 1990), II 740-1, no. *5; Hillard 1650; Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, I pp. lx–lxi f 1; Oates 2436; Rhodes 1429; Sack, Freiburg, 2910; Sheppard 5185-92.

LCN: 14014637, 14014735, 14016312, 14016343, 14016364

Copies

Copy number: P-345(1)

Sheppard notes that there are ‘errors in headlines too numerous to specify'.

Binding: Contemporary south German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps and catches lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the lower cover. On both covers fillets form the outer border within which is a ‘Maria' scroll stamp and a small lozenge-shaped fleuron. Intersecting triple fillets form a frame within which is a repeated foliate staff stamp. Further triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is decorated with a repeated headed-outline tool making up merrythoughts, each containing a fleuron. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Leather index tabs dyed red. The name of the author and the title of the work are written in black ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand along the upper edge.

Size: 302 × 225 × 137 mm.

Size of leaf: 286 × 210 mm.

Early marginal notes, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands, also underlining in the text in black ink.

Provenance: Purchased for £2. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1794), 1.

SHELFMARK: Auct. K 3.22.

Copy number: P-345(2)

Wanting2 h4.5, and2 m1.8,2 m1 being signed l1 in error, also the blank leaf a1.

Bound in two volumes. Gathering [*] and leaf a2 are made up from a shorter copy. The blank leaf [rum6], numbered ‘213' in the early hand that supplied the foliation numbers, is now bound at the beginning of volume 2 before the Symposium; another mounted leaf has been inserted in its place.

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards; gold-tooled spine.

Size: Vol. 1: 283 × 217 × 47 mm; vol. 2: 282 × 218 × 64 mm.

Size of leaf: 280 × 202 mm.

Early marginal notes, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, ‘nota' marks, and running headings (in vol. 1), also underlining in the text in black ink. Early manuscript title on [*1r]. Irregular early manuscript foliation: vol. 1: 11-245; vol. 2: 246-559.

One- to six-line initials (some with extensions into the margins) and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Unidentified owner, Cologne, 1506; cropped inscription on [*1r]: ‘[ ] comparaui hunc librum 4 flo[ ] Colonie anno 1506'. Paris, Collège de Navarre (sixteenth century). J. Orcin (sixteenth century); inscriptions on [†5v] and [†6r]: ‘Pro libraria Regalis Collegii Campaniæ als[ ] Nauarræ'; ‘Pro J. Orcin magister artium Regalis Collegii Nauarræ Parisiensis'. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2557.1-2. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 3.10-11.

Copy number: P-345(3)

Wanting the blank leaf [*8].

Bound in three volumes. Sheets2 e1.8 and2 e2.7 are bound within2 e4.5.2 h3.6 is in duplicate. A duplicate of sheet2 l1.8 is bound in the following gathering. Sheet ff2.5 has been transposed in binding.

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century (before 1833) quarter green morocco over russia. All three volumes were clearly originally bound as one: there is writing in black ink on the fore-edge of each volume, and, when the three volumes are placed together side by side, the name of the author “PL'O” is revealed. The rebinding had obviously taken place before Heber's death, since this item is recorded in his sale catalogue (see below) as being in three volumes.

Size: Vol. 1: 288 × 222 × 47 mm; vol. 2: 288 × 226 × 40 mm; vol. 3: 291 × 225 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 280 × 211 mm.

Early marginal notes, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, and ‘nota' marks, also underlining in the text in black ink. A separate sheet containing a list in Heber's hand of books bought at the sale in Vienna in 1819 with prices in sterling is attached to the verso of the rear endleaf of vol. 1. Other bibliographical notes by Singer and Bywater, including information about the watermarks, are written on the endleaves of vol. 1, or on sheets attached to them. Bibliographical note by Horwood (signed ‘A. J. H.') on the recto of the front endleaf of vol. 2.

Partial rubrication in vol. 2: a five-line initial ‘Q' is supplied in red on2 h5v; some paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Johannes Jacobus de Milano of S. Maria Gratiarum, Gravedona, lake Como, Lombardy (fifteenth century); inscription on [*2r]: ‘Liber ad vsum fratris Johannis Jacobi de Mediolano sancte Marie Gratiarum Grabedone'. Bartholomaeus de Palazzuolo (fl. 1487); inscription on [*2r]: ‘Frater Bartholomaeus de Pallo[ ] vicarius generalis congregationis Lombardie manu propria'. Purchased by Heber for £3. 0. 0, according to the price annotated in red ink in his sale catalogue; note in Heber's hand on the recto of the front endleaf of vol. 1: ‘Vienna 1819 (p. 28 n. 239) 34 flor. i. e. abt. £3. 4. 0'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); list of purchases at this sale (see above); transcript (in the hand of Singer, as in Auct. 2Q inf. 2.71) of Heber's bibliographical note in another copy, lot 3457, of the same sale; see Catalogue, 5 (1835), lot 3455, sold for £0. 17. 0. Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858); purchased at Heber's sale; sale, part 3 (16 May 1860), lot 718. Alfred John Horwood (1821-1881); inscriptions on the front pastedowns of all three volumes: ‘Alfred J. Horwood, Temple'. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2557.3-5. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 3.12-14.

Copy number: P-345(4)

Gatherings2 a–y, ç, et, cō, rū, [et], [con], [rum], aa–ss, [per] , [*] only, containing ‘Commentarium [Ficini] in Convivium', Symposium, Phaedrus, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Menexenus, Respublica, ‘Compendium [Ficini] in Timaeum', Timaeus, Critias.

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) half calf with marbled paper boards.

Size: 282 × 215 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 276 × 204 mm.

Some early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, also underlining in the text in black ink.

Partial rubrication in gathering2 a only: two- to five-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: [ ] Ghirlanda (sixteenth century?); name on the front pastedown: ‘Ghirlanda'. David Nutt. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased from Nutt for £0. 11. 6.; see invoice attached to the front pastedown, dated 14 Mar. 1895; Elenchus, no. 2557.6. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 3.15.

Copy number: P-345(5)

Wanting sheet2 r3.6, and the blank leaf ç10.

Gatherings2 a–y, ç, et, cō, rū, [et], [con], [rum], aa–ss, [per] , [*] only, containing Commentarium Ficini in Convivium, Convivium, Phaedrus, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Menexenus, Respublica, Compendium Ficini in Timaeum, Timaeus, Critias, De legibus, Epistolae, Emendationes.

Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) half calf over wooden boards; two metal catches, two clasps lost. Paper label at the head of the spine giving the name of the author and the title of the work.

Size: 297 × 218 × 82 mm.

Size of leaf: 280 × 208 mm.

Early marginal notes, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, and ‘nota' marks, also underlining in the text in black ink. Irregular early manuscript foliation: 207-555.

Provenance: Between2 i7 and2 i8 was found a visiting card: ‘Vason Dagnolo Valano | Coniugi' [P. O.] (in manuscript below). Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2557.7; a card from [Sir] J[ames] A. H. M[urray] (1837-1915) addressed to Bywater, and dated 16 Dec. [19]02, has now been attached to the phase box in which the book is stored. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 3.16.

Copy number: P-345(6)

Gatherings2 a–y, ç, aa–ss, [per] , [*] only, containing ‘Commentarium [Ficini] in Convivium', Symposium, Phaedrus, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Menexenus, Respublica, De legibus, Epistolae, Emendationes. De legibus and Epistolae (gatherings aa–ss) are bound first.

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) limp parchment. The contents are listed on the spine in black ink.

Size: 283 × 210 × 53 mm.

Size of leaf: 277 × 202 mm.

Occasional early marginal and interlinear notes, including corrections made in black ink to the text, and in red ink to the printed running headings; also comments on the text.

Initials are supplied in black ink.

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2557.8. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 4.1.

Copy number: P-345(7)

Gatherings2 e–y, ç, et, cō, rū, [et], [con], [rum], aa–ss, [per] , [*] only, containing Symposium, Phaedrus, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Menexenus, Respublica, ‘Compendium [Ficini] in Timaeum', Timaeus, Critias, De legibus, Epistolae, Emendationes.

Binding: Seventeenth-century Italian parchment.

Size: 290 × 221 × 68 mm.

Size of leaf: 281 × 197 mm.

Early marginal notes in both red and black ink, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, ‘nota' marks, pointing hands, corrections to the printed running headings; also underlining in the text. The gatherings have been given a different sequence of alphabetical signatures, which are written in the lower margin in black ink.

Provenance: Rome, Augustinian Hermits, S. Maria de Populo; faded or erased inscription in the upper margin of2 e1r, legible under ultraviolet light: ‘Conuentus S. Marie de Populo ad vsum bibliothece'; octagonal paper shelfmark label(?) (white edged in blue) on the front pastedown: ‘F 3'. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2557.9. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. H 4.2.


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